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11000 BC |
Scientists in 2005 said archeological sites dating to this time in Michigan, Canada, Arizona, New Mexico, and the Carolinas showed evidence, magnetic metal spherules, for a comet impact that may have wiped out North American mammoths and many other animals. Links: Canada, North Carolina, Arizona, South Carolina, Michigan, New Mexico, Extinction, HistoryBC 
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1588 |
An eye-witness account of the New World was provided by "A Briefe and True Account of the New Found Land of Virginia," written by Thomas Harriot. It recounted English attempts from 1584-1588 to colonize what later became known as eastern North Carolina and encouraged further settlement and investment there. In 1590 Flemish engraver Theodor de Bry published an illustrated edition featuring paintings by English colonist John White. Links: Britain, Flanders, Virginia, North Carolina, Books
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1718 Jun 10 |
Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, ran aground about this time and soon sank off the coast of Beaufort, NC. In 1997 underwater archeologist raised a canon believed to be from this ship. Links: Britain, USA, North Carolina, Ship, Pirates
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1718 Nov 22 |
A force of British troops under Lt. Robert Maynard captured English pirate Edward Teach (b.~1682), better known as "Blackbeard" (aka Captain Drummond), during a battle near Ocracoke Island, off the North Carolina coast. They beheaded him. The governor of Virginia had put a price of 100 pounds on his head. Links: Britain, USA, Virginia, North Carolina, Pirates
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1761 |
In western North Carolina British soldiers razed Kituwha, the heart of the Cherokee Nation. Punitive raids here were repeated in 1776. Links: Britain, USA, North Carolina, AmerIndian
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1781 Mar |
The Continental cavalry under Col. Henry Lee, the father of Robert E. Lee, surprised and cut to pieces the Loyalist cavalry near Hillsborough, NC. Ninety Loyalists were killed with no losses to Lee. Links: USA, North Carolina, Civil War (US)
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1781 Jun |
Emily Geiger was said to have crossed British lines in North Carolina to deliver an urgent message to American Gen. Nathaniel Greene as Greene’s army retreated from British forces under Gen. Francis Rawdon. Links: Britain, USA, North Carolina
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1855 |
Hinton Rowan Helper of North Carolina published “The Land of Gold: Reality vs. Fiction,” in which he critically commented on California and San Francisco based on his three plus years in the state. “Suffice it to say that we know of no country in which there is so much corruption, villainy, outlawry, intemperance, licentiousness, and every variety of crime, folly and meanness.” The book was republished in 1948 under the title “Dreadful California.” Links: USA, California, Writer, SF, North Carolina, Books
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1857 |
Hinton Rowan Helper of North Carolina published “The Impending Crisis of the South,” a criticism of slavery and slaveholders. Links: USA, North Carolina, Books, Slavery
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1862 Dec 31 |
The USS Monitor sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras, NC., while being towed by the Rhode Island. 16 officers and seamen died. In 1973 scientists from North Carolina’s Duke University discovered the deteriorating relic 16 miles from the coast, in 240 feet of water. In 1975 the site was designated the nation’s first marine sanctuary, and it was the first shipwreck to be named a National Historic Landmark in the United States. In 2002 the turret was raised. Links: USA, North Carolina, Ship, Civil War (US)
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1867 |
Hinton Rowan Helper of North Carolina published “Nojoque,” one of the most virulent racist tracts ever written in America. Links: USA, North Carolina, Books
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1876 |
Lewis R. Redmond (1854-1906) of North Carolina shot and killed a revenue agent near Brevard, NC, when the agent tried to arrest him for making and transporting illegal whiskey. Links: USA, Murder, North Carolina, Liquor
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1881 Apr 7 |
Lewis R. Redmond, a North Carolina moonshiner wanted for murder, was cornered at his home. He was shot 6 times while trying to escape, but survived and was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He served just 3 years and returned to work for a licensed distillery. Links: USA, North Carolina, Liquor
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1881 |
David and William White founded their White Furniture Co. in Mebane, NC. The business continued until 1993. Links: USA, North Carolina, Furniture
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1882 |
Bishop Crittenden authored the dime novel “The Entwined Lives of Miss Gabrielle Austin, Daughter of the Late Rev. Ellis C. Austin, and Redmond, the Outlaw, Leader of the North Carolina Moonshiners.” Links: USA, North Carolina, Liquor, Books
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1888 |
William Henry Belk founded a dry goods store in Monroe, NC. By 1960 the partnerships produced a chain of 362 Belk Inc. department stores under the leadership of his son, John Montgomery Belk (1920-2007). Links: USA, North Carolina
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1889 |
George Vanderbilt II began building his country estate in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. “Biltmore” was completed 6 years later with 250 rooms spread over 175,000 square feet. Links: USA, North Carolina
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1898 Nov 9 |
Some white people in Wilmington, NC, issued a White Declaration of Independence, proclaiming "that we will no longer be ruled ... by men of African origin. Links: USA, Black History, North Carolina
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1898 Nov 10 |
A "race riot" in Wilmington, NC, left many blacks killed. A vigilante group of armed supremacists forcibly removed the Republican city leaders (both black and white) from office, and took control, burning buildings and shooting blacks. Reports vary from a coroner’s total of 14 to unconfirmed eyewitness reports claiming scores of deaths. White Democrats overthrew the fusion government of legitimately elected blacks and white Republicans. The Democrats burned and killed their way to power in what's viewed as a flashpoint for the Jim Crow era of segregation and the only successful coup d'etat in American history. William Rand Kenan Sr. was reportedly in charge of the machine gun used during the coup. Links: USA, Black History, North Carolina
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1900 Oct |
The Wright Brothers began active flying experiments at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their first glider was a biplane that soared for 300 feet. Links: USA, Aviation, North Carolina
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1900 |
In Greensboro, NC, the cotton processing Revolution Mill was established. By 1938 it was the world’s largest factory exclusively making flannel. The mill ceased production in 1982. Links: USA, North Carolina
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1901 Jan 15 |
Charles Aycock (1859-1912) began serving as the 50th governor of North Carolina and continued to 1905. He was a strong proponent of the white supremacy campaigns of that period. Aycock was one of the leading perpetrators of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, in which whites took over the city government by force, the only coup d'état in US history. Links: USA, North Carolina
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1902 |
The Wright Brothers built a glider based on their new aerodynamics tables. Efficiency was almost doubled and they made over 1,000 flights at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, NC. Links: USA, Ohio, Aviation, North Carolina
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1903 Dec 17 |
The Wright brothers' Flyer I flew for 12 seconds in the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The plane used an aluminum engine designed by their Dayton mechanic Charlie Taylor. The brothers were the sons of a Dayton, Ohio, bishop (Church of the United Brethren). Orville Wright made the first powered, controlled and sustained flight. Orville, lying prone at the 605-pound plane's controls, flew a distance of 120 feet in 12 seconds. Wilbur ran beside Flyer's wing tip until it was airborne to keep the wing from dragging in the sand. Four sustained flights were made on this day. The 4th flight lasted fifty-nine seconds. The day’s events received little press attention, since the reticent Wright brothers feared their ideas would be stolen by rival aviators. It was not until 1908, after making many refinements to their flying machine, that the Wrights embarked on a series of public demonstrations that finally earned them worldwide acclaim. A one-hour PBS documentary covered their life as part of "The American Experience." In 2015 David McCullough authored “the Wright Brothers.” Links: USA, Ohio, Aviation, North Carolina, Biography
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1906 |
The B.F. Huntley Furniture Co. opened in Winston-Salem, NC. It had been organized as the Oakland Furniture Co. in 1898. In 1929 it was purchased by the Simmons Co., then based in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Links: USA, North Carolina, Furniture
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1909 Mar 8 |
Hinton Rowan Helper (b.1829) of North Carolina, writer and former US consul in Buenos Aires (1861-1866), blocked the door of his Washington, DC., rooming house, turned on the gas and asphyxiated himself. Links: USA, Suicide, Writer, North Carolina, DC
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1916 |
In North Carolina a magnitude 5.5 quake occurred near Skyland. Links: USA, Earthquake, North Carolina
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1918 Mar 25 |
Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), was born in Winston-Salem, NC. Links: USA, North Carolina, Football
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1926 Jan 8 |
Soupy Sales (d.2009), comedian (Soupy Sales Show), was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, as Milton Supman. Links: USA, TV, North Carolina, Comedy
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1926 Sep 23 |
John Coltrane (d.1967), influential jazz saxophonist, was born in North Carolina. He greatly influenced jazz from the `60s to the present day despite his untimely. He moved to Philadelphia after high school where he studied music and later worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Hodges and others. Links: USA, North Carolina, Jazz
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1929 1974 |
In North Carolina over 7,600 people were forcibly sterilized during this period. In 2011 Gov. Beverly Perdue created a 5-person task force to decide on compensation. Links: USA, Medical, North Carolina
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1942 Jul 15 |
A group of 19 merchant ships were being escorted by the US Navy and Coast Guard from Norfolk, Va., to Key West, Fla., to deliver cargo for the war effort. En route Convoy KS-520 was attacked by the German U-576 off of Cape Hatteras near North Carolina. The German submarine damaged two ships and sank Bluefields. In retaliation, a US naval aircraft bombed the U-576. The two ships sank to the ocean floor 30 miles off the cape. All 45 members of U-576 were lost. Wreckage of the two ships was found on Aug 30, 2014. Links: USA, Germany, North Carolina, Ship, Submarine, WWII
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1942 |
Camp Lejeune, a US Marine Corps Base, was established near Jacksonville, N.C. Links: USA, North Carolina
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1945 Apr 15 |
The USS Laffey, built at Maine's Bath Iron Works in 1943, got its nickname as "The Ship That Would Not Die" when it was on picket duty off Okinawa. About 50 Japanese planes attacked and about half got through to the Laffey. The ship suffered 103 casualties when it was hit by four bombs and five kamikaze planes. In 2012 it returned to its home at a maritime museum on Charleston Harbor on the South Carolina coast. Links: USA, Japan, North Carolina, Maine, Ship
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1952 |
Hugh Morton (1921-2006) inherited Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina and turned it into a top tourist attraction. In 2008 the mountain and some 2,600 surrounding acres of wilderness were purchased by the state for $12 million. The area will eventually be added to the North Carolina State Park system. Links: USA, North Carolina, M&A, Real Estate
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1953 |
Thomas Watson Jr., the son of IBM chief Thomas Watson, threatened to cancel plans for plants in Kentucky and North Carolina if they could not be fully racially integrated. State governors backed down and the plants opened 3 years later. Links: USA, Labor, Black History, North Carolina, Kentucky
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1956 Feb 14 |
The B.F. Huntley furniture plant in Winston-Salem, NC, was destroyed by fire. The factory was rebuilt and the Huntley name continued until it was sold to Thomasville Furniture Industries in 1961. Links: USA, North Carolina, Fire, Furniture
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1956 |
Malcom McLean (d.2001 at 87), an entrepreneur from North Carolina, used a converted WW II tanker called the Ideal X to sail 58 cargo filled containers from New Jersey to Houston. He named his company Sea-Land Service and is considered as the founder of container shipping. In 2006 Marc Levinson authored “The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.” Links: USA, North Carolina, New Jersey, Texas, Ship
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1960 |
Wilbur Hardee (1917-2008), opened his first Hardee’s restaurant, in Greenville, NC. The company went public in 1963. Links: USA, North Carolina, Food
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1961 Jan 24 |
A B-52 carrying two nuclear bombs near Goldsboro, North Carolina encountered a violent gust. The giant plane rolled completely over, came upright, and continued rolling inverted a second time before whipping into a vicious flat spin and breaking up. An apocalyptic explosion was stopped only by a tiny last-ditch, low-voltage switch. Links: USA, Air Crash, North Carolina, Nuclear
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1969 Sep 30 |
In North Carolina a tax on soft drinks went into effect. A soft drink excise tax is hereby levied and imposed on and after midnight, September 30, 1969, upon the sale, use, handling and distribution of all soft drinks, soft drink syrups and powders, base products and other items referred to in this section. An excise tax of one cent (1¢) is levied on each bottled soft drink. Links: USA, Taxes, North Carolina, Cola
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1969 |
In North Carolina US District Judge James McMillan ruled that the Charlotte school district was intentionally segregating students and ordered busing to achieve integration. This led to the 1971 US Supreme Court ruling to approve the busing plan. The program was ended in 1999. Links: North Carolina, Education, Supreme Court
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1969 |
John Montgomery Belk (1920-2007), head of the department store chain Belk Inc., began serving as Mayor of Charlotte, NC. He served 4 terms to 1977. Links: USA, North Carolina
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1969 1985 |
Terry Sanford (d.1998 at 80) served as the president of North Carolina’s Duke Univ. Links: USA, North Carolina
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1970 Feb 17 |
At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald’s wife and 2 daughters were murdered. Dr. MacDonald was convicted of the murders but claimed that drug-crazed assailants were responsible. The book "Fatal Vision" by Joe McGinniss recounted the story. In 2005 evidence was presented that Helena Stoeckley (1953-1983), a defense witness, had admitted to a prosecutor that she was at MacDonald’s house on the night of the murder. Links: Murder, North Carolina
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1971 Feb 6 |
In Wilmington, NC, Mike's Grocery, a white-owned business, was firebombed. When firefighters arrived to put out the flames, they were fired upon by snipers positioned on the roof of Gregory Congregational Church. The National Guard was mobilized to quell rioting. The violence resulted in two deaths. Reverend Benjamin Chavis, Jr. of Oxford, North Carolina, and nine others, eight African American men and one white woman, were arrested and tried and convicted for arson and conspiracy in connection with the firebombing. They were sentenced to nearly 28 years in prison. Chavis Muhammad (b.1948), a member of the Wilmington 10, was sentenced in 1972 to 34 years in prison. He spent 4 years in prison before his conviction was overturned on appeal. In 1980 a federal appeals court threw out the convictions. Links: Black History, North Carolina, Fire, Mad Crowd
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1971 Feb 21 |
A series of tornadoes cut through the lower Mississippi River Valley. The two-day outbreak, which produced 19 tornadoes, killed 123 people across 3 states, including 11 in Louisiana, 110 in Mississippi, and 2 in North Carolina. Links: USA, Louisiana, North Carolina, Mississippi, Tornado
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1971 Apr 20 |
The US Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools. The ruling allowed Charlotte, NC., and other cities nationwide to use mandatory busing and student assignment based on race to attempt to further integrate schools. Swann v. Mecklenburg arose in 1965 when a black parent, James E. Swann, challenged the system that kept Charlotte's black students apart from the white majority. In 2001 an appeals court ruled that the dual school system was dismantled and busing could end. A failed appeal to the Supreme Court ended the case in 2002. Links: USA, Black History, North Carolina, Education
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1972 Sep 16 |
Marine sergeant William Miller was shot and killed near Camp Lejeune, NC. In 2009 three people faced murder charges after prosecutors alleged that the murder was the result of a love triangle centered around Miller’s ex-wife, Vickie Babbitt. Fellow ex-Marine George Hayden (57), who married Babbit after Miller’s death, was alleged to have shot Miller. Ex-Marine Rodger Gill (56) was alleged to have witnessed the murder. Links: USA, Murder, North Carolina
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1973 |
Crystal Lee Sutton (1940-2009) was fired for her pro-union activities at a J.P. Stevens textile plant in North Carolina. The 1979 film “Norma Rae” was based on her story. In 1974 the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile workers Union won the right to represent 3,000 employees at seven Roanoke Rapids plants in North Carolina. Links: USA, Labor, North Carolina
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1974 Mar 7 |
Duke Univ. and the North Carolina Department of Archives and History announced the discovery of the Civil War ship USS Monitor. Links: USA, North Carolina, Ship
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1974 Apr 3 |
A series of 148 deadly tornadoes struck wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping across the border into Canada; some 330 people were killed in 13 states: Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Total property damage was estimated at $600 million. In 2007 Mark Levine authored “F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century.” Links: Georgia, Canada, Ohio, Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Michigan, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, Indiana, Tornado
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1974 Sep 11 |
In North Carolina an Eastern Airlines DC-9, Flight 212, crashed 3 miles from the Douglas Municipal Airport. Of the 82 persons aboard the aircraft, 11 and two crewmembers survived the accident. One passenger died 3 days after the crash, and another died 6 days after the crash. One survivor died of injuries 29 days after the accident. Links: USA, Air Crash, North Carolina
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1974 |
North Carolina ended a eugenics program under which some 7,600 people had been sterilized. In 2018 the third and final compensations payments were made to qualified claimants. Links: USA, Medical, North Carolina
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1975 Jun 4 |
The oldest animal fossils to date in the US were discovered in North Carolina. Links: USA, North Carolina
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1976 May 8 |
McKendree Robbins Long (b.1888), Southern gothic painter and evangelical preacher, died in North Carolina. His work included: "Apocalyptic Scene With Philosophers and Historical Figures," and "The Fifth Angel Opens the Bottomless Pit." Links: Artist, USA, North Carolina
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1976 |
Charlie Rose, a US democrat from North Carolina, founded the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future. It was to be an in-house think tank intended as an antidote to the institutional short-termism of Congress. Links: USA, North Carolina
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1976 |
Jim Goodnight co-founded software-maker SAS on the campus of the Univ. of North Carolina. By 2007 the company was a leader in business intelligence software and the world’s largest privately owned software maker. Links: USA, North Carolina, Computer
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1979 Nov 3 |
Five radicals were killed when gunfire erupted during an anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in Greensboro, N.C., after a caravan of Klansmen and Nazis had driven into the area. Named 'The Greensboro Massacre', the five marchers were shot to death in broad daylight and another 8 were wounded. In 2020 the Greensboro City Council approved a resolution that apologized for the shooting deaths. Links: USA, North Carolina, KKK
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1979 |
Jim Ellis (d.2001 at 45) and Tom Truscott, Duke graduate students, linked computers to share information and created the Usenet electronic bulletin board. Links: USA, North Carolina, Computer, Internet, Education
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